It was a session like no other: different rules, new
power players, a surprise trip to Oklahoma, and the
small matter of a $9.9 billion budget shortfall. All of
which made it tricky to separate the heroes from the
zeroes. But we did.

It was a session like no other: different rules, new
power players, a surprise trip to Oklahoma, and the
small matter of a $9.9 billion budget shortfall. All of
which made it tricky to separate the heroes from the
zeroes. But we did.

In a rare interview, George H.W. Bush—a.k.a. the Former Leader of the Free World—disses Newt and the Dixie Chicks, muses on the restorative powers of Maine, and (who’d have imagined?) has nice things to say about the current occupant of the Oval Office.